What to do if bats settle in your house, snakes swarm under your compost pile, and an anthill starts to rise in the garden corner?
Due to declining habitats and expanding human settlements, more and more wild animals are entering cities and villages. In addition, readily available food also attracts smaller wildlife to cities. Also in late summer and autumn, when young animals start to move around on their own, they can be seen more often on city streets. As a rule, smaller wild animals do not pose a risk to humans – a healthy animal is usually careful enough to avoid humans. In order to reduce the number of wild animals in cities, they must not be provided with easily accessible food – waste must be kept out of the reach of animals and you must not put out food for them [1].
If you see a wild animal in a settlement or a city, you should call the state helpline 1247 if the wild animal is in a helpless situation, is injured, looks sickly, or if a larger wild animal has entered the city [1].
But what to do if bats settle in your house, snakes swarm under your compost pile, and an anthill starts to rise in the garden corner? Should you feed birds/animals and if yes, which ones? How to make sure that confused birds do not fly against windows?
You will find the answers to these and other questions in this section.
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